I took time out this evening from revision to pop along to Talking Politics with Eddie Izzard, where the infamous comedian talked for a short while about his own interest in politics – culminating in restating his intention to run for some political office, at least, in the next 10-15 years. Needless to say, the audience was behind him on this.

But the evening wasn’t about Eddie Izzard, for he was there to ask a few gentle questions of MPs Tessa Jowell and Ed Balls, both well-known Labour ministers. There was some talk about whether holding a costly Olympic Games amidst the recession is a good thing – resoundingly yes, Jowell said, when the Olympic site will have employed some 11,000 workers, and created hundreds of new apprenticeships – and also, at the very end, talk about twitter.

Overall it was a nice little gathering. Organised by London Labour Party, it was never going to be an aggressive evening, but there was one question about Labour’s record on civil liberties that had the potential to cause some upset had Jowell not steered her answer firmly towards CCTV in town centres and away from proposed detention without trial, the DNA database and so on. It also lasted a fair bit less than I’d expected – only just over an hour, rather than from 5-8 as I’d originally expected.

Finally, I recored an audioboo on my way home, as way of recording a couple of my thoughts: